tearing

It's been 8 days since I gave birth to my Lil guy who was 8lbs. I tore quite a bit as they had me push as fast as I could. my pain has not gone down much only a littke, but today I looked down there and noticed I have a flap of skin between my vagina opening and my Anus . I called my Dr and have an appointment fri. The nurse acted as if I was just paranoid. Kind of aggravated me because I truly don't want a large flap of skin

just hanging where it shouldn't. Anyone else have this issue ??? Did it self heal or still there ??

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Idk about the flap but I had a lot of tearing. They also told me to push as hard as I could and I got stuck with over 50 stitches. I didn't realize that the harder you push, the more you rip! It's been 13 days for me and it's still painful. You would think they would have told you that.

Idk about the flap but I had a lot of tearing. They also told me to push as h...

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02/16/2015

Idk about the flap but I had a lot of tearing. They also told me to push as hard as I could and I got stuck with over 50 stitches. I didn't realize that the harder you push, the more you rip! It's been 13 days for me and it's still painful. You would think they would have told you that.

I know they said the same to me, it was like a hurry up already deal. I tore up and back .

I had the same thing. Turns out I was just really swollen. But I remember looking down there and seeing this buldge of skin and crying to my DH (dear husband) that I had "balls" because that's what it looked like....but took some meds, sat on some ice and it went down

You ladies are brave, I'm too nervous to take a look! 4th degree tear and it's still painful after 10 days. I think it might be that you're swollen, I was swollen for the first week - Dr. said it happened since baby was over 10 lbs. Hope that's your case too and nothing serious.

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